The Expedition To The Baobab Tree: A Novel

Author:   J.M Coetzee ,  Wilma Stockenstrom
Publisher:   Archipelago Books
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9781935744924


Pages:   220
Publication Date:   15 April 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Learning to survive in the harsh interior of Southern Africa, a former slave seeks shelter in the hollow of a baobab tree. For the first time since she was a young girl her time is her own, her body is her own, her thoughts are her own. In solitude, she is finally able to reflect on her own existence and its meaning, bringing her a semblance of inner peace. Scenes from her former life shuttle through her mind- how owner after owner assaulted her, and how each of her babies were taken away as soon as they were weaned, their futures left to her imagination. We are the sole witnesses to her history- her capture as a child, her tortured days in a harbor city on the eastern coast as a servant, her journey with her last owner and protector, her flight, and the kaleidoscopic world of her baobab tree. Wilma Stockenstr m's profound work of narrative fiction, translated by Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, is a rare, haunting exploration of enslavement and freedom.

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Author:   J.M Coetzee ,  Wilma Stockenstrom
Publisher:   Archipelago Books
Imprint:   Archipelago Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 18.70cm
Weight:   0.204kg
ISBN:  

9781935744924


ISBN 10:   1935744925
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   15 April 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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- An astonishing achievement. --The Star (South Africa) - A truly remarkable contribution, both for the lyrical quality of its prose and for its boldly imaginative theme. --World Literature Today - Lyrical ... dramatic ... epic. Of the living, active poets in Afrikaans she is the greatest. --Andre Brink, author of Philida and A Dry White Season - A compelling, richly textured fable. --Christopher Hope, author of Shooting Angels - Let me immediately say that this book gripped me from the very first paragraph and I could not put it down till I closed it late last night, deeply moved, with the realization: Today I read a great work. --Audrey Blignault, South African Broadcasting Corporation - A poignant reflection on death and the psyche of a human being. -- Rapport - An evocative historical novella. -- Breyten Breytenbach


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Wilma Stockenstr m is one of the most important authors writing in Afrikaans. She has published 5 novels, 7 collections of poems, and one play. She received the Hertzog Prize for Poetry in 1977 and again in 1992. She was awarded Italy's Grinzane Cavour Prize in 1988 for The Expedition to the Baobab Tree. She has also had a successful career as an actress on stage and in film. She has been living in Cape Town since 1993. The author lives in Rapier, South Africa.

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